Wave Skiing News Today

Way to ski on waves. >> wave skiing is the brain child of professional athlete chuck patterson. its definitely an extreme sport. john berman got the details in this "world news" conversation. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: chuck patterson, thank you so much for joining us. where are you talking to us from? it looks like a surf shop somewhere. >> im talking from my office in dana point, california. >> reporter: i know you like to ski on snow in mountains but a video thats been passed around the internet qu...

Has you skiing not on mountains at all, but on waves. >> yes. its kind of a combination with toe surfing and big waves and snow skiing and its something that weve been kind of working on for quite some time. and a couple of skiers last year took it to a new level. and i kind of took it from there. >> reporter: how does it work? walk us through it. >> basically, it takes a couple of things. the skis we have are custom made. we put ski bindings on there. and then we also use ski boots. you need ki...